Page 499 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 February 1993
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MR DE DOMENICO: No, you did not show me these during the sitting yesterday.
Mr Moore: I gave you a written one.
MR DE DOMENICO: No, you did not.
Mr Moore: Yes, I did.
MR DE DOMENICO: Where is it? You did not give me anything in writing, Mr Moore; I am sorry. Have you a copy of it?
MADAM SPEAKER: It is Mr De Domenico's speech, Mr Moore. Please continue, Mr De Domenico.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, Mr Moore did not give me a written copy of anything yesterday. Had Mr Moore given me a copy yesterday, as he says he did, I would not have asked Ms Szuty last night to put it in writing. For Mr Berry, who was not there when Ms Szuty and I spoke, to stand up and allege to know what Ms Szuty and I said is a bit of humbug. Mr Berry was not there, so he does not know what I said or what Ms Szuty said, unless Ms Szuty told him.
Mr Berry: Mr Moore told me what he had done.
MR DE DOMENICO: Mr Moore told him what Ms Szuty said to me, did he? As far as I am aware, Mr Lamont is the Government Whip, not Ms Szuty or Mr Moore.
Mr Kaine: Or Mr Berry.
MR DE DOMENICO: Or Mr Berry. As Opposition Whip, I have not heard from Mr Berry or Mr Lamont about what the Government's intentions were. Obviously Mr Lamont and Mr Berry have spoken to Mr Moore and Ms Szuty and made up their minds in advance. That is fine. If you want to get into bed with Mr Moore, Mr Berry, that is your prerogative. If you want to increase Mr Moore's and Ms Szuty's standings on committees in order in the future to give them more staff, that is your prerogative and the Chief Minister's prerogative, but you cannot break standing order 221.
Mr Humphries said, quite rightly, that Mr Moore and Ms Szuty already have double the representation they are entitled to. I do not know what deal you have made, but you have obviously made some deal which says, "Okay, you can have whatever you like as long as we get something back in return, perhaps politically". That is your business. We are not going to do deals with Mr Moore. If you want to do deals with Mr Moore and if you want to break standing orders, in our opinion, it is your prerogative to do that. Let us make no mistake that in the discussions I had as Opposition Whip with Ms Szuty yesterday I said to Ms Szuty, "I want it in writing". I did not receive from Mr Moore anything in writing.
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